The Isaiah Berlin Catalogue

Building: Letters 1960–1975, ed. Henry Hardy and Mark Pottle (London, 2013: Chatto and Windus; London, 2016: Pimlico)

• letter of 17 October 1962 to Aline Berlin repr. as ‘The Important Young Man’, New Republic, 11 February 2013, 53–4

More Building - supplementary letters 1960-1975

An online selection of the more significant letters to have emerged since the publication of Building: Letters 1960–1975 (London, 2013: Chatto and Windus; London, 2016: Pimlico)

• First posted 19 December 2019
• Latest updated (i.e. this edition) 13 April 2024

The four published volumes of Berlin's letters focus on the outgoing letters, i.e. those written by him. Where we have the other side of the correspondence, and have been able to secure the necessary copyright permission, the online supplements will now also include a selection of the more important letters written to Berlin:

• In this update are two letters from the Riga-born Harvard philosopher Judith Shklar to IB; other letters to IB in this supplement are from At present the only examples in this supplement are the letters from Bryan Magee, George Kennan, Sam Sebba.

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